An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

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

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.