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

I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.