From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

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

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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

When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.