Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal.

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.