The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.