The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.