Honor lies in honest toil.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.