“High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.”

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

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

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.

Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.