Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.