We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.

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

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.