Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.