"A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics."
"I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future."
"Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may b..."
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
"Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results."
"We must drive the special interests out of politics."
"Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall..."
"The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary."
"We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff ..."
"Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world."
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles."