“Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society”

They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein.

People complain that our generation has no philosophers.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.

Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.