I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.