We are going to see great manufacturing centers here in Montana taking advantage of the power of your waters.

The law is no respecter of persons.

This is not, and never shall be, a government of a plutocracy; it is not, and never shall be, a government by a mob.

The most unsafe adviser to follow is the man who would advise us to do wrong in order that we may benefit by it.

We are bound in honor to try to remedy injustice; but if we are wise we will seek to remedy it in practical ways.

Incidentally, whether he acquiesce or not, the law will be enforced, and this whoever he may be, great or small, and at whichever end of the social scale he may be.

Great good has come from the development of our railroad system.

The crime of cunning, the crime of greed, the crime of violence, are all equally crimes, and against them all alike the law must set its face.

We have the right to ask every decent American citizen to rally to the support of the law if it is ever broken against the interest of the rich man.

This is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

Every man who has made wealth or used it in developing great legitimate business enterprises has been of benefit and not harm to the country at large.

His folly is greater than the folly of any other man who so complains; for he lives and moves and has his being because the law does in fact protect him and his property.

While all people are foolish if they violate or rail against the law—wicked as well as foolish, but all foolish—yet the most foolish man in this Republic is the man of wealth who complains because the law is administered with impartial…

Ours is a government of liberty by, through and under the law.

I ask that we see to it in our country that the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class.

No man is above it and no man is below it.

I do pay proper heed to them.

If you doubt my words, do not believe them.