Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.