Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

The chief business of the American people is business.

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

All growth depends upon activity.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.