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

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.

The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.