The business of the country is business.

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.