Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.