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

It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.

The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc... the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.