American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

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

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.