I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

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

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.