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

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.