There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

This is history written in lightning.

I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.