Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

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.