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

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.