If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we...
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."
When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it d...
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious t...
You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.