Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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

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

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

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.