Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

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

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.