“You can’t increase prosperity by taxing success.”

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.

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

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

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

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.

The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

We need god to prosper those without him will not.

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

What India needs for prosperity is just ease of doing business.