High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.