Twenty million people are starving [in Russia]. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.