"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 ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people"
"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"
"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation"
"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic"
"Tell me what is right and I will fight for it"
"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"
"So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus"
"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign"
"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them"
"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"
"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"
"I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world"
