Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
They lived long that have lived well.
We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction.
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Government is not a warfare of interests.
Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.
We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
This is history written in lightning.
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.
War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
I’m a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
When the representatives of “Big Business” think of the people, they do not include themselves.