Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

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

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

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way.