The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.