There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

Life is one darn thing after another.

We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

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.