The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land we love. But it is even better to have a native land who loves us.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.