My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

Reality is what I see, not what you see.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.