To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

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

McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair.

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.