No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse

The American people abhor a vacuum.

We demand that big business give people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a square deal

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.