A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

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.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.