It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

Oh, if only I could be President and Congress, too, just for ten minutes.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.

The American people abhor a vacuum.