When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

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

The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.