You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.