It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

The business of America is business.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.