You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

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

To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.