But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred

It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

The future is no more uncertain than the present

I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms