Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.