all those great bodies of unnamed men who are going to produce our
future leaders and renew the future energies of America. And as I
confess that, as I confess my belief in the common man, I know what I
am saying. The man who is swimming against the stream knows the
strength of it. The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being
struck and what blood is being drawn. The man who is on the make is a
judge of what is happening in America, not the man who has made; not
the man who has emerged from the flood, not the man who is standing on
the bank, looking on, but the man who is struggling for his life and
for the lives of those who are dearer to him than himself. That is the
man whose judgment will tell you what is going on in America, and that
is the man by whose judgment I for one wish to be guided--so that as
the tasks multiply and the days come when all will seem confusion and
dismay, we may lift up our eyes to the hills out of these dark valleys
where the crags of special privilege overshadow and darken our path,
to where the sun gleams through the great passage in the broken
cliffs, the sun of God, the sun meant to regenerate men, the sun meant
to liberate them from their passion and despair and to lift us to
those uplands which are the promised land of every man who desires
liberty and achievement.

Speaking for the necessity of corporate reform in business, he said:

I am not objecting to the size of these corporations. Nothing is big
enough to scare me. What I am objecting to is that the Government
should give them exceptional advantages, which enables them to succeed
and does not put them on the same footing as other people. I think
those great touring cars, for example, which are labelled "Seeing New
York," are too big for the streets. You have almost to walk around the
block to get away from them, and size has a great deal to do with the