In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Gradually the true Mason gains experience in using these working tools and can observe subtler and subtler indications of personal flaws.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

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.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.