I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

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

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.