The Government, national and state, can mighty easily spoil chances for all of us.
We are all of us apt to get to talking and thinking of the nation and the state as abstractions.
We will govern them primarily in their interests, but in our own interests also.
If we have not got in us the lift toward righteousness, the lift toward something better than material needs, prosperity will be a curse ins...
It is impossible to devise anyone perfect solution, and one complete solution, for all the problems of our latter-day industrial civilizatio...
Government by the majority in Congress had practically come to a stop when Mr. Reed became Speaker.
The government cannot do everything.
The government is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.
I have come here less to teach than to learn
The government can do something—it can do a good deal—but it never can begin to do as much for the individual as the individual can do for t...
You must have it in peace; you must have it in war.
You can do a good deal through the town, but you can do more for the town than it can do for you.
But education is not enough.
You have got to have a superstructure, too.
You have got to have the men behind the guns— the men in the engine room.
The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.
No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man.
In this country we have got to have decent and intelligent government, not as a substitute for individual initiative but as a supplement to ...
