They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

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

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.

The final solution for unemployment is work.