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

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers and find illumination...

You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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