Teddy Roosevelt: “The character of the average citizen who went into the ranks.”

I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he…

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

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.