Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

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

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.