You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Bears don't live on Park Avenue.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

Everyone is entitled to be wrong about their opinions, but no one has the right to be wrong about their facts.