When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.