I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

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

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.