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.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?