When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

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

I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.

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

Baseball is our national game.

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.

Prosperity cannot be divorced from humanity.