Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

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.

I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

While President, I have been President - emphatically.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.