It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called.

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.