We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

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.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River