Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.