The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.