I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.
The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.
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 that his work well done is a part of an unending plan.
It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.
Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
All growth depends upon activity.
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.
School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
Don’t hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don’t hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American.
Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
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 the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.
Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.
Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.