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

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.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

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.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.