“In our government we cannot permanently succeed unless the people really do rule.”

Address in St. Louis, Missouri
March 28, 1912

“We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.”

New York City
March 20, 1912

“The least desirable of all taxes is the tax which bears heavily upon the honest as compared with the dishonest man.”

Seventh Annual Message
December 3, 1907

“The whole problem of taxation is now, as it has been at almost all times and in almost all places, one of extreme difficulty.”

Annual Message as Governor
January 3, 1900

“It is true that no nation can be really great unless it is great in peace; in industry, integrity, honesty.”

Address at the Naval War College
June 1897

“Let this nation fear God and take its own part. Let it scorn to do wrong to great or small. Let it exercise patience and charity toward all other peoples, and yet at whatever cost unflinchingly stand for the right when the right is menaced by the might which backs wrong.”

Fear God and Take Your Own Part
1916

“It is our duty to try to devise some efficient plan for securing the peace of righteousness throughout the world.”

New York Times
September 27, 1914

“Do not get into a fight if you can possibly avoid it. If you get in, see it through.”

Speech before the National Press Club
January 24, 1918

“A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.”

Fourth Annual Message to Congress
December 6, 1904

“Washington and Lincoln set the standard of conduct for the public servants of this people.”

Letter to Sir Otto Trevelyan
November 6, 1908

“Wherever I have gone, whatever audience I have addressed, the fact that has jumped to the eye was the fact that a good American is a good American in any part of this country.”

Remarks in Seattle, Washington
May 23, 1903