The world is full of educated derelicts.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Self-government means self support.