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The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.