Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

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

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.