A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.