"Let us try as a people to show the same qualities as we deal with the industrial and social problems of today that Abraham Lincoln showed when with indomitable resolution, but with a kindliness, patie..."
"To them it was given to perform the one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve the Union."
"There can be no swerving from the course that has thus been mapped out in the legislation actually enacted and in the messages in which I have asked for further legislation."
"It is the course of real, of ultimate conservatism."
"Today I wish to say a word to you about the first and most important feature of this task, the control of the common carriers doing an interstate business, a control absolutely vested in the Nation."
"We best serve the interests of the honest railway men when we announce that we will follow out precisely this course."
"There must be progressive legislative and administrative action for the correction of the evils which every sincere man must admit to have existed in railroad management in the past."
"For he died in the fulness of time, serving his country with entire devotion—a death that every man may well envy."
"There will be no halt in the forward movement toward a full development of this policy."
"There can be no halt in the course we have deliberately elected to pursue, the policy of asserting the right of the Nation, so far as it has the power, to supervise and control the business use of wea..."
"There must be vested in the Federal Government a full power of supervision and control over the railways doing interstate business."
"The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect the manner of settlement, occupation and entry as her..."