The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

I have always advised men to read

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.