"Mr. Secretary, you would better give all New England for the cod and mackerel fisheries of Newfoundland than to barter away Oregon,"
"Those who were sure that our salvation lay in the destruction of organized labor and the precipitated reduction of wages have found that the national administration was not disposed to Acquiesce in th..."
"The best test of policy is by results."
"I am quite aware that there were some who imagined, before the present administration was voted into responsibility, that it was going at least to acquiesce if not definitely sympathize with projects ..."
"We have come thus far, and thus fortunately, through the most difficult period of reconstruction that we have ever known."
"It will be righteous and just, it will be more effective in war and marked by less regret in the aftermath, if we draft all of capital, all of industry, all of agriculture, all of commerce, all of tal..."
"I believe our policy, and its results, have reflected the sound judgment of the overwhelming majority of the American people."
"If war must come again—God grant that it shall not!—then we must draft all of the nation in carrying on."
"One of the greatest lessons which the World War taught to society was a realization of its stupendous producing capacity under modern organization."
"Through such effort as this there will be opportunity for a great service."
"I have wondered if it were not possible, for example, that a scheme of cooperation among consumers, financed, in part at least, through a carefully organized and supervised adaptation of the principle..."