In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.