Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

America was born a Christian nation.

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.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.