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

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.