The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible; on the political side, the Constitution.

Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.