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

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.

The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.