I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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

One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States.