Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.