The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

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

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

I have seen the future, and it works.

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

The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.