Anytime you don't want anything you get it.

No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.