[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.