One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

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

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

One with the law is a majority.