Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk.