Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

You don't have to explain something you never said.

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.

It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question was then, is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.