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

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

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

We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man.