There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.