America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

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

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.