After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.

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