The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

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

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