America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Inflation is repudiation.

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