“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The whole world is one neighborhood.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

What America needs now is a drink.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

I believe we all deserve good endings. We were kind people before this world turned us cruel.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

It seems to me a cruelty beauty and tragedies are lovers.