The country is not in good condition.

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.

Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.