Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Do the day's work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but don't be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but don't be a demagogue. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Don't hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

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

I should think that an ordinary copy of the King James version would have been good enough for those Congressmen.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

Silence can never be misquoted.