The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .