Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.