“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”

If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness, and even death.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.