Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.