Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.