No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

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.

Never hit if you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You'll never get any thanks for hitting soft.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.