Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

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.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.