The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. 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.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

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