Only foolish people are completely secure.

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.