"Constant care should be taken to guard against unnecessary increase of the ordinary expenses of government."
"It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence ..."
"They are not against the rich man any more than against the poor man."
"There should be severe child-labor and factory-inspection laws."
"They have under no circumstances the right to commit violence upon these, whether capitalists or wage-workers, who refuse to support their organizations, or who side with those with whom they are at o..."
"The National Government alone can deal adequately with these great corporations."
"Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern ..."
"Of course any violence, brutality, or corruption, should not for one moment be tolerated."
"It is an absurdity to expect to eliminate the abuses in great corporations by State action."
"The cost of doing Government business should be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing a private business."
"The Nation continues to enjoy noteworthy prosperity."