Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.