“The business of the country is business.”
“Civilization and profits go hand in hand.”
“No man ever listened himself out of a job.”
“No one every listened themselves out of a job.”
“I have never been hurt by what I have not said.”
“You can't know too much, but you can say too much.”
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”
“When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.”
“There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.”
“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.”
“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.”
“If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.”
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
“Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.”
“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
“The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.”
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
“If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.”
“What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.”
“Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.”
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
“I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.”
“The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.”
“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.”