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

Comparison is the thief of joy.

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.