It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.