I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

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.

There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers and find illumination...