It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, b….

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it..

I have never been hurt by what I have not said..

We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do….

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means..

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it..

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration..

All growth depends upon activity..

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good….

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people..

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a re….

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for t….

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which h….

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own….

Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If ta….

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The r….

[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President ….

Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the righ….

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations..

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation..

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results..