"We are not a military nation."
"To carry out this policy is but to act in the spirit of George Washington."
"The United States can hope for a permanent career of peace on only one condition, and that is, on condition of building and maintaining a first-class navy."
"I can not too emphatically say that this is a measure of peace and not of war."
"I advocate that the United States build a navy commensurate with its powers and its needs, because I feel that such a navy will be the surest guaranty and safeguard of peace."
"Strikes themselves are, and should be, recognized to be entirely legal."
"No temporary restraining order should be issued by any court without notice;"
"It is a reproach to us as a Nation that in both Federal and State legislation we have afforded less protection to public and private employees than any other industrial country of the world."
"Child labor should be prohibited throughout the Nation."
"It is worth considering whether it would not give greater popular confidence in the impartiality of sentences for contempt if it was required that the issue should be decided by another judge than the..."
"In the modern industrial world combinations are absolutely necessary;"
"The burden of the trade risk should be placed upon the Government."