It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

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.