I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.