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

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.