Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.
The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man’s land between honesty and dishonesty.
The supreme purpose of history is a better world.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.