In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land..

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living..

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men..

It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. The….

So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen yea….

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation..

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge….

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one..

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a m….

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end..

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children..

Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the government over the daily working life of….

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism..

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the ….

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It ….

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer..

We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats.

The more complex the problems of the Nation become, the greater is the need for more and more advanced instruction..

I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering wh….

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence..

I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars….