I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

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.

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.