There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

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

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.