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

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.