“The object of government is the welfare of the people.”

Speech in Chicago
April 10, 1899

“We should discourage driving property out of the state by unwise taxation, or levying a tax which is in effect largely a tax upon honesty.”

Annual message to the Legislature
January 2, 1899

“The first requisite for the welfare of any community is justice.”

Outlook
February 25, 1911

“A strong and wise people will study its own failures no less than its triumphs, for there is wisdom to be learned from the study of both.”

Sixth Annual Message in Washington
December 3, 1906

“The republic cannot stand if honesty and decency do not prevail alike in public and private life.”

Speech in Galena, IL
April 27, 1900

“Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done.”

Speech in Groton, Massachusetts
May 24, 1904

“A man is worthless unless he has in him a lofty devotion to an ideal.”

The Outlook
July 28, 1900

“If as a nation we are split into warring camps, if we teach our citizens not to look upon one another as brothers but as enemies divided by the hatred of creed for creed, surely we shall fail.”

Speech in New York City, October 12, 1915

“No man is fit to hold the position of President of the United States at all unless as President he feels that he represents no party but the people as a whole.”

Speech in Dallas, Texas
April 5, 1905

“I would rather go out of politics feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I had acted as I ought not to.”

Speech in the New York Assembly
March 2, 1883

“In a government like ours, a man can accomplish anything only by acting in combination with others.”

Forum

July, 1894

“It is always easy for an individual or a party to make promises; the strain comes when the party or individual has to make them good.”

Speech in Baltimore, MD,
February 23, 1889