To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.