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.

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

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

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.