"We meet to-day, representing the people of this continent, from the Dominion of Canada in the north, to Chile and the…"

"We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less…"

"By sheer force of moral purpose, by clarity of perception, by mastery of detail and benign manipulation of men, he ha…"

"Personally, I do not believe that our civilization will fall. I think that on the whole we have grown better and not …"

"Hitherto every civilization that has arisen has been able to develop only a comparatively few activities; that is, it…"

"What is the lesson to us to-day? Are we to go the way of the older civilizations? The immense increase in the area of…"

"The whole world is bound together as never before; the bonds are sometimes those of hatred rather than love, but they…"

"In new and wild communities where there is violence, an honest man must protect himself; and until other means of sec…"

"Throughout their early stages the movements of civilization—for, properly speaking, there was no one movement—were ve…"

"The people of the United States suffer from periodical financial panics to a degree substantially unknown to the othe…"