The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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.

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.