There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.