I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.