"I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference."
"I stand for the square deal."
"Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may b..."
"A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics."
"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 he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life."
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
"We must drive the special interests out of politics."
"I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present."
"Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall..."
"Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results."
"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 examples for the future."
"France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world."