I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.