"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."

"I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past."

"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."

"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed."

"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other."

"You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs."

"We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands."

"In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it."