I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wide disorder the citadel of misrule.

It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.