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

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.