If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

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.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.