"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."

"Tell me what is right and I will fight for it."

"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."

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

"Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country."

"Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place."

"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world."

"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."