We cannot abandon our position on the Monroe Doctrine;

This government is not, and never shall be, the government of a plutocracy.

The nation must act in a spirit which gives full recognition to the national demands;

My pet theory has been that the very best thing that can happen to Harvard is to have the West win it

It is a great pleasure to greet you to-day and be once again in this fertile and beautiful State of Illinois.

While prosperity is indispensable as the basis, as the foundation, it will not amount to anything if you do not build on that foundation.

You raise a great many good crops in Illinois, but the best crop is the Illinois citizen.

No business community can permanently succeed if the average member of it does not possess a certain quantity of high ideals;

We cannot help playing a great part.

If there is not a foundation of material prosperity for the State, as for the individual, you cannot expect anything but unhappiness; but woe to the State, as woe to the individual, if material prosperity is all that is sought after.

Our country is governed and under existing circumstances can only be governed, under the party system.

Hard words won't hurt us if we disregard them.

It is to them that we owe the fact that we have a country at all.

Personally, I believe that the Federal government must take an in creasing control over corporations.

The courts would retain, no matter what the legislature did, the power to interfere and upset any action that was confiscatory in its nature.

I have accepted your kind and generous invitation to come before you this evening.

I believe thoroughly in each kind of organization.

I remodeled it anyhow, purely in the exercise of my executive functions.

Perhaps the father of a number of children can be excused for saying that of all the classes of our country I think the school teacher deserves a little the best of all of us.

I hail every Harvard club west of the Alleghany, even more than I do those east of there

I am particularly pleased to greet the Harvard Club of Chicago again under as pleasant circumstances as I have ever had the pleasure of greeting them before

It is going to be dug honestly and as cheaply as is compatible with efficiency, but with efficiency first.

There is no use of expecting much of him if he cannot pull his own weight.

I would be ashamed of you if you were not.

You have got to take care of both.