No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

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.

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

Speak softly, I'm getting my massage.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.