No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

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.