No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.