There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.