If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.

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

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.

Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.