All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.

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

The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.