All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.