Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.