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

Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

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.

Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.

The world is full of educated derelicts.

The chief business of the American people is business.