"I have come here less to teach than to learn"
"The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament."
"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 the government."
"You have got to have the men behind the guns— the men in the engine room."
"The government cannot do everything."
"You can do a good deal through the town, but you can do more for the town than it can do for you."
"No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man."
"You must have it in peace; you must have it in war."
"The government is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament."
"But education is not enough."
"You have got to have a superstructure, too."
"If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own prosperity."