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.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

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.

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.