The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

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.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

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.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

The world must be made safe for democracy.