Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.

If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.