We infinitely desire peace, and the surest way of obtaining it is to show that we are not afraid of war. 
There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty,
![Edmund Morris quotes: [Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.](http://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/edmund-morris-quotes-314877.jpg "Edmund Morris quotes: [Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.")
[Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.
Well, we seem to have it.
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital. 
Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones."T. Roosevelt
Unless wealth was chastened by culture or regulated by government, it was at worst predatory, at best boring. 
much of a muchness. 
In El Paso," the President said approvingly, "the people are homicidal but orthodox. 
the most dangerous members of the criminal class - the criminals of great wealth. 
It is idle to hope for the enforcement of a law where nineteen-twentieths of the people do not believe in the justice of its provisions. 
I think," Philander Knox teased, "it would be better to keep your action free from any taint of legality. 
the great fundamental questions looming before us,"21 namely, the unnatural alliance of politics and corporations. It 
Three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Bower and their really satisfactory American family of twelve children! 
Man with the Muckrake 
the most trenchant commentary was 
What I cannot understand about the Russian," Roosevelt complained, "is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he is lying. 