You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.