Teddy Roosevelt: “We can best help the growth of American scholarship by seeing that as a career it is put more on a level with the other…”

A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.

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 want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.