If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
