Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.

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

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

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness.

It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.