No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.