Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.