The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

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.

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.