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.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

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

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

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