Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

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

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.