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.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.