A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.