Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.

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

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.