The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

People die, but books never die.