You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

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.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.