I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself..

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process..

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency o….

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a nigh….

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly..

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are p….

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world..

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind societ….

There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manife….

The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise….

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is ….

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man ….

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more..

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decora….

Great lives never go out; they go on..

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of ….

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his….

The bud of victory is always in the truth..

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love..

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues..

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given..