Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want the government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist.
The Forgotten Man. . . delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school. . . but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay. . . . Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.
My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.
The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth
God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.
I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.
Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.