When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.

It takes vision and courage to create

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.