I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.

A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public.

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.