If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.