I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

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

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.