The only people who are contented with a system of promotion by mere seniority are those who are contented with the triumph of mediocrity over excellence.

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…

Such a base is desirable in time of peace; in time of war it would be indispensable, and its lack would be ruinous.

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.

The question is simply whether or not we shall have an isthmian canal.

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.

We have done our duty to others in letter and in spirit, and we have shown the utmost forbearance in exacting our own rights.

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.

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…

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.

The accumulated savings of the workingmen of the country, as shown by the deposits in the savings banks, have increased by leaps and bounds.