Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

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

When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

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.

The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.

If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.