Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.

A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. 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.

Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects.