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.
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.
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
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.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
By ‘radical,’ I understand one who goes too far; by ‘conservative,’ one who does not go far enough; by ‘reactionary,’ one who won’t go at all.
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.
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
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.
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.
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.