This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important and that his work well done is a part of an unending plan.

Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.

I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.