While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

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

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

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

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.