Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.