“We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.”

I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way

We can’t have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.