[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion a….

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit ….

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt..

No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they ….

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act..

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of m….

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life..

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to ser….

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure..

My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity i….

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resis….

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 t….

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this..

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost every….

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people..

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience..

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of h….

If you want to make enemies, try to change something..

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit....

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of comm….

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empi….