My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Failure is not an American habit.

A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives. For too many of us life was no longer free; liberty no longer real; men could no longer follow the pursuit of happiness.

Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.