The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.

I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.