“Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.”

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

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.

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.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because. they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.

Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.

America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.

We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

Our ability to live a life of love and meaning, to make the world a braver and kinder place.

To be successful you don’t need beautiful face and heroic body, what you need is skillful mind and ability to perform.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

The ability to be surprised is hidden in all of our hearts.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.