While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life more complete, has to be supplied by the genius of the people themselves. The Government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.