[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.