The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

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.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.

wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow.