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.

If the farmer and the wage-worker are well off, it is absolutely certain that all others will be well off too.

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…

In all industries carried on directly or indirectly for the United States Government women and children should be protected from excessive hours of labor, from night work, and from work under unsanitary conditions.

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.

To be permanently effective, aid must always take the form of helping a man to help himself; and we can all best help ourselves by joining together in the work that is of common interest to all.

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

Into the woman’s keeping is committed the destiny of the generations to come after us.

No wrongdoing is so abhorrent as wrongdoing by a man toward the wife and the children who should arouse every tender feeling in his nature.

There should be proper proof of personal capacity to earn an American living and enough money to insure a decent start under American conditions.

In closing I want to say one word upon success in life, upon the success that each of us should strive for.

But in endeavoring each to be his brother’s keeper it is wise to remember that each can normally do most for the brother who is his immediate neighbor.

It is a serious and dangerous thing for any man to tear loose from the soil, from the religion in which he and his forbears have taken root, and to be transplanted into a new land.

Doubt, apprehension, uncertainty are exactly what we most wish to avoid in the interest of our commercial and material well-being.

For the first time the great business and the forest interests of the Nation have joined together, through delegates altogether worthy of the organizations they represent, to consider their individual and their common interests in the…

But I felt that he possessed the high integrity which I demanded in the man who was to manage my campaign.

The right and the responsibility must go hand in hand.