America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action