When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.