I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.