It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Character is the only secure foundation of the state.