The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.