I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

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

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

Look well to the hearthstone; therein all hope for America lies.

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.