The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

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

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.