The American people abhor a vacuum.

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

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.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.