No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
One with the law is a majority.
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
