“We wish to see the business man prosper and make money, for unless he does prosper and make money he can neither permanently pay good wages to his employees nor permanently render good service to the public.”

Portsmouth, Rhode Island, July 2, 1913

“We stand for the honest enforcement of law, and in the long run I have faith that the American people will approve of that stand, because the honest enforcement of law is vital to the ultimate well-being of our great Republic.”

Buffalo, New York, September 11, 1895

“Absolute equality, absolute justice in matters of taxation will probably never be realized.”

Message to New York Legislature, January 3, 1900

“Preparedness against war is the only efficient form of national peace insurance.”

Metropolitan Magazine, August 1915

“It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises.”

 Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910

“To be successful, we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction.”

Address at the Sorbonne, April 23, 1910

“Each Congressman should be made to feel that it is his duty to support the law, and that he will be held to account if he fails to support it.”

 Scribner’s Magazine, August 1895

“The disloyal man, whether his disloyalty is open or disguised, is our worst foe; but close behind him comes the man who, whether from wickedness or foolishness, assails his loyal fellow citizens because of the blood that flows in their veins.”

 The Great Adventure, 1918

“Washington, alike statesman, soldier, and patriot, stands alone.  He was not only the greatest American; he was also one of the greatest men the world has ever known… Of Americans, Lincoln alone is worthy to stand even second.”

Gouverneur Morris, 1892