Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their ...
Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular go...
We must drive the special interests out of politics.
Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by ...
I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as ex...
No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if h...
I stand for the square deal.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus...
Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the li...
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary...
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing t...
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
If you will steal for me you will steal from me.
