I must be wanting to be President. Every young man does. But I won't let myself think of it; I must not, because if I do, I will begin to work for it; I'll be careful, calculating, cautious in word and act, and so - I'll beat myself.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

It is not the critic who counts

There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men of one social or industrial condition against men of another social and industrial condition. We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.