Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.