Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.