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.

The benefits which have followed the unaided development of the past justify the nation's aid and co-operation in the more difficult and important work yet to be accomplished.

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.

All our legislation for the islands should be shaped with this end in view; the well-being of the average home-maker must afford the true test of the healthy development of the islands.

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.

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.

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

We do not desire to do for the islanders merely what has elsewhere been done for tropic peoples by even the best foreign governments.

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.

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…

Such desertion of duty on our part would be a crime against humanity.

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.