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

• Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that 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.
• My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
• If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
• We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
• 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.
• 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 have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
• The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
• Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that 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.