...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.

From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.