The business of the country is business.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.