Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
No enterprise can exist for itself alone.
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.
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.