There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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.
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
We grow by our dreams.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?