They were relentless, revengeful, suspicious, knowing neither ruth nor pity; they were also upright, resolute, and fearless, loyal to their friends, and devoted to their country.

The nature of the wild Indian has not changed.

But the good sense and self-restraint of the average American citizen falsified these prophecies.

You colored men who show in business life both ability and a high order of integrity are real benefactors not only of your race but of the whole country.

This is enabling the poor harassed people of Santo Domingo once more to turn their attention to industry and to be free from the curse of interminable revolutionary disturbance.

A famine or a plague in one country brings much sympathy and some assistance from other countries.

Now let it be understood once for all that no just and orderly government on this continent has anything to fear from us.

The people to whom this country owes and will owe much are those who stay down there and do not talk, but do their work, and do it well.

Let each man feel that if such work can be well done it is in itself the amplest reward and the amplest prize.

It is generally our own fault if he does damage to us, for he damages us chiefly by arousing our envy or by rendering us sour and discontented.

As a people I think we are waking up to the fact that there must be better pay for the average man and average woman engaged in the work of education.

In the first place, it is a bad thing for Troy if Troy will not stand idealism; and in the next place it is a poor type of ideal that is of no use in Troy.

The same homely virtues apply in managing the life of a nation as in managing an individual’s life.

More and more as we increase in strength I hope to see a corresponding increase in the sober sense of responsibility which shall prevent us either injuring or insulting any other people.

But the first essential is the preservation of law and order, the suppression of violence by mobs or individuals.

The greatest and most dangerous rock in the course of any republic is the rock of class hatred.

In other words, I shall strive to see that that branch of the Government with its increased power is administered as every branch of the Government ought to be administered—that is, in a spirit of striving to do exact justice to the men of…

If the measure which I advocate is enacted into law, a good many people will expect that it will bring the millennium considerably nearer than will prove to be the case.

False hopes are always raised by any measure of reform, because there are always people who expect the impossible.

If the power is granted me to create such a board, such a commission, or to continue in power, if I so desire, a commission or board with increased powers, I shall strive to appoint and retain men who will do exactly the same justice to…

The arrogance and the envy are not two different qualities; they are the same quality shown by men under different circumstances.

In this country of ours the Government can no more rise higher than those who make it than a stream can rise higher than its source.

My experience has been that the man who talks over-loudly of his hostility to corporate wealth can not be trusted even to antagonize corporate wealth when it is wrong.

Most emphatically we can not as good Americans bear hostility to any rich man as such any more than to any poor man as such.

I want to have the battleships as a provocative for arbitration so far as the other man is concerned.