Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves