I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

Civilization and profit go hand in hand.

We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

The business of America is business.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

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.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

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.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.