Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.

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.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.