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

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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.