What I am to be, I am becoming.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

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.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

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.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.