We should put a premium upon thrift, hard work, and business energy; but these qualities cease to be the main factors in accumulating a fortune long before that fortune reaches a point where it would be seriously affected by any…

It is eminently right that the Nation should fix the terms upon which the great fortunes are inherited.

They rarely do good and they often do harm to those who inherit them in their entirety.

If a man is injured or killed in any line of work, it was hazardous in his case.

What would have been an infringement upon liberty half a century ago may be the necessary safeguard of liberty to-day.

Outside of organized labor there is a widespread feeling that this system often works great injustice to wageworkers when their efforts to better their working condition result in industrial disputes.

The power of injunction is a great equitable remedy, which should on no account be destroyed.

Of course a judge's views on progressive social philosophy are entirely second in importance to his possession of a high and fine character; which means the possession of such elementary virtues as honesty, courage, and fair-mindedness.

But it is also true that judges, like executives and legislators, should hold sound views on the questions of public policy which are of vital interest to the people.

We who make up the mass of the people can not shift the responsibility from our own shoulders.

The time for playing with our waterways is past.

Nothing better for the Navy from every standpoint has ever occurred than the cruise of the battle fleet around the world.

The improvement of the ships in every way has been extraordinary, and they have gained far more experience in battle tactics than they would have gained if they had stayed in the Atlantic waters.

The American people have cause for profound gratification, both in view of the excellent condition of the fleet as shown by this cruise, and in view of the improvement the cruise has worked in this already high condition.

You work yourselves, and you bring up your sons to work.

But let us not deceive ourselves as to the importance of the task.

No man of good sense and stout heart can take such a proposition seriously.

If we are such weaklings as the proposition implies, then we are unworthy of freedom in any event.

We need clean, healthy newspapers, with clean, healthy criticism which shall be fearless and truthful.

He is a fine fellow, rugged, hard-working, shrewd, and keenly alive to the fundamental virtues.

It was his life-work to lift these little Italians over the first painful steps on the road toward American citizenship.

In either case the people who listen to and believe him are not to be excused, though they may be pitied.

But fortunately the men of sturdy common sense and sound patriotism proved victors, and the new navy was begun.

You have taught us both by what you did on the tented fields, and by what you have done since in civic life, how this spirit of brotherhood can be made a living, a vital force.

Let us instantly condemn and rectify such wrong when it occurs, and if possible punish the wrongdoer.