Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

No man can be just who is not free.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.