It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

The chief business of America is business.

What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.

The business of America is business.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

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.