Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and th….

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more..

I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamen….

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Ame….

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight..

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table..

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most o….

Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished..

The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, b….

Civilisation and profits go hand in hand..

Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the pe….

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have ….

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government..

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.

We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the go….

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once..

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character..

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; ….

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.

In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look abo….

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love..