In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.