Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.