I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

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.

What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.