Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.