I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.