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

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

Inflation is repudiation.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

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.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.