“Courtesy is as much the mark of a gentleman as courage.”

Outlook Magazine
April 1, 1911

“Under our form of government voting is not merely a right but a duty.”

Speech in Washington
December 1907

“Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions.”

Speech in New York City
October 12, 1915

“This is not and never shall be a government of either a plutocracy or of a mob. It is, it has been, and it will be, a government of the people.”

Speech in Spokane, WA
May 26, 1903

“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be the greatest dreamer.”

Speech in Berkeley, California,
1911

“The judge who does his full duty well stands higher, and renders a better service to the people, than any other public servant.”

Letter to Charles J. Bonaparte
January 2, 1908

“We must act with Justice and broad generosity and charity toward one another and toward all men if we are to make this Republic what it must and shall be made.”

Speech in New York City
February 12, 1913

“In the long run, even the most uncomfortable truth is a safer companion than the pleasantest falsehood.”

American Ideals
1897

“There is not one of us who does not need to have a helping hand stretched to him at some time, and woe to the man who refuses to stretch that helping hand.”

Speech in Albany, NY
November 20, 1901

“Let us make it evident that we intend to do justice. Then let us make it equally evident that we will not tolerate injustice being done to us in return.”

Speech at Minnesota State Fair
September 2, 1901

“The men who wish to work for decent politics must work practically, and yet must not swerve from their devotion to a high ideal.”

Forum
July, 1894

“Americans should organize politically as Americans and not as bankers, or lawyers, or farmers, or wage workers.”

Kansas City Star
September 12, 1918