Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. I made myself act as though I was not afraid, and gradually my fear disappeared. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans . . The unforgivable crime is soft hitting.
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
The worst fear is the fear of living. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Without them the material development of which we are so justly proud could never have taken place. . . . Yet it is also true that there are real and great evils. There is a widespread conviction in the minds of the American people that the great corporations known as trusts are uncertain of their futures and tendencies hurtful to the general welfare.