It is a good thing to preserve such buildings as historic monuments which keep alive our sense of continuity with the Nation's past.

Publicity in corporate affairs will tend to do away with ignorance, and will afford facts upon which intelligent action may be taken.

Systematic, intelligent investigation is already developing facts the knowledge of which is essential to a right understanding of the needs and duties of the business world.

As much as possible should be done to distribute the immigrants upon the land and keep them away from the congested tenement-house districts of the great cities.

The corporation which is honestly and fairly organized, whose managers in the conduct of its business recognize their obligation to deal squarely with their stockholders, their competitors, and the public, has nothing to fear from such…

The purpose of this Bureau is not to embarrass or assail legitimate business, but to aid in bringing about a better industrial condition--a condition under which there shall be obedience to law and recognition of public obligation by all…

Nothing revolutionary was attempted; but a common-sense and successful effort was made in the direction of seeing that corporations are so handled as to subserve the public good.

The only corporation that has cause to dread it is the corporation which shrinks from the light, and about the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

But distribution is a palliative, not a cure.

We recognize that this is an era of federation and combination, in which great capitalistic corporations and labor unions have become factors of tremendous importance in all industrial centers.

Every man must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as he likes with his property or his labor, so long as he does not infringe the rights of others.

Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

The progress has been by evolution, not by revolution.

The need of strict economy in our expenditures is emphasized by the fact that we can not afford to be parsimonious in providing for what is essential to our national well-being.

Careful economy wherever possible will alone prevent our income from falling below the point required in order to meet our genuine needs.

If we are to stay in the business it ought to be with a full understanding of the advantages to the country on one hand, and on the other with exact knowledge of the cost and proper methods of carrying it on.

The need is to devise some system by which undesirable immigrants shall be kept out entirely, while desirable immigrants are properly distributed throughout the country.

The body politic can not be sound and healthy if many of its constituent members claim their standing through the prostitution of the high right and calling of citizenship.

It should mean something to become a citizen of the United States; and in the process no loophole whatever should be left open to fraud.

The desire for naturalization is heartily to be commended where it springs from a sincere and permanent intention to become citizens, and a real appreciation of the privilege.

All good citizens, whether naturalized or native born, are equally interested in protecting our citizenship against fraud in any form, and, on the other hand, in affording every facility for naturalization to those who in good faith desire…

It is hardly necessary to urge the importance of recovering these dishonest acquisitions, stolen from the people, and of promptly and duly punishing the offenders.

It should be the policy of the United States to leave no place on earth where a corrupt man fleeing from this country can rest in peace.

There is no reason why bribery should not be included in all treaties as extraditable.

The recent amended treaty with Mexico, whereby this crime was put in the list of extraditable offenses, has established a salutary precedent in this regard.