A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Prosperity is just around the corner.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.