I am in this cause with my whole heart and soul. I believe that the Progressive movement is making life a little easier for all our people; a movement to try to take the burdens off the men and especially the women and children of this country. I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

First of all, I want to say this about myself: I have altogether too important things to think of to feel any concern over my own death; and now I cannot speak…

Friends, I will disown and repudiate any man of my party who attacks with such foul slander and abuse any opponent of any other party.

Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill …

End welfare as we know it.

In proportion as mankind becomes wise - yes, in exact proportion to that wisdom - should be the extinction of the unequal system under which they now subsist. …

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas…