What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves.
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.
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 of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.
What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don’t, its meaning can never be fully understood!
The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.
It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.