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

Never, never, you must never either of you remind a man at work on a political job that he may be President.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.