Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.

I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.