The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
More than just an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.