After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

The chief business of America is business.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law.

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.