When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. ... The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.

The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?