What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.

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

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.