You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

McKinley shows all the background of a chocolate eclair.

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