Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

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

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.