Teddy Roosevelt: “That abuses exist, and that they are of a very grave character, it is worse than idle to deny.”

Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.

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.

Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.

the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.