The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

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

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.