"No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the virile qualities without which no nation can speak with power, or can command respect in the councils of the world."

"I am a strong believer in the doctrine of 'the New Nationalism.'"

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to…"

"The American people are right in demanding that the power of the federal government be used to protect the weak against the strong."

"I have always been a strong advocate of the policy of 'a fair field and no favor.'"