In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.