The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

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

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Duty is not collective; it is personal.

I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.