I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

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