Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

They [the Founding Fathers] were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance with the principle of self-government. They were an inspired body of men. It has been said that God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness ... Who can fail to see it in the hand of Destiny? Who can doubt that it has been guided by a Divine Providence?

Inflation is repudiation.

To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of necessity increase production while decreasing consumption is to fly in the face of an economic law as well established as any law of nature.

Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.