We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.