It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

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.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.