We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.