We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.

I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.

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.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

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

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

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.