Silence can never be misquoted.
As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.
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 made progress.
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.
Character is the only secure foundation of the state.
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.
The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.