Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether it will or no. We have now reached that time. We cannot avoid facing the fact that we occupy a new place among the people of the world.

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

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more.

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law