The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

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

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.