The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

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. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.