In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry.