Believe you can do it and you are halfway there

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

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.

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.