When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

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.