What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

We grow by our dreams.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.