I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

They lived long that have lived well.