It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged and cold, vainly seeking in this land of plenty, where physical want should be unknown.

Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.