I Would Strenuously Urge A Single Term

The Progress Of Society Is Mainly The Improvement In The Condition Of The Workingmen Of The World.

The Best Hopes Of Any Community Rest Upon That Class Of Its Gifted Young Men Who Are Not Encumbered With Large Possessions.... I Now Speak Of Extensive Scholarship And Ripe Culture In Science And Art.... It Is Not Large Possessions, It Is Large Expectations, Or Rather Large Hopes, That Stimulate The Ambition Of The Young.

The Unrestricted Competition So Commonly Advocated Does Not Leave Us The Survival Of The Fittest. The Unscrupulous Succeed Best In Accumulating Wealth.

What Congress And The Popular Sentiment Approve Is Rarely Defeated By Reason Of Constitutional Objections. I Trust The Measure Will Turn Out Well. It Is A Great Relief To Me. Defeat In This Way, After A Full And Public Hearing Before This [electoral] Commission, Is Not Mortifying In Any Degree, And Success Will Be In All Respects More Satisfactory.

I Am A Radical In Thought (and Principle) And A Conservative In Method (and Conduct).