"Let him once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him."
"He kept us out of war."
"Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition whilst Congress in its committee rooms is Congress at work."
"Quite as important as legislation is vigilant oversight of administration."
"It is the proper duty of a representative body to look diligently into every affair of government and to talk much about what it sees."
"...; and unless Congress both scrutinize these things, and sift them by every form of discussion, the country must remain in embarrassing, crippling ignorance of the very affairs which it is most impo..."
"A powerful Navy, we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense."
"Congress should use every means to oversee the executive branch. Otherwise, he argued the country would remain in embarrassing, crippling ignorance of the very affairs which it is most important it sh..."
"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or..."
"I would rather fail in a cause that will some day triumph than triumph in a cause that will some day fail."
"The price of wheat is a world price; and it is a matter of little moment whether the Canadian wheat goes directly into the markets of the other countries of the world or indirectly through this countr..."