“Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.”

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

The Working Man’s Creed: “A short day is better than a short dollar” .

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

Our past has gone into history.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice?

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

We must not forget that we are a work in progress.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.