We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.