With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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.

There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men of one social or industrial condition against men of another social and industrial condition. We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.