Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction