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.

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.