“What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.”

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.

Life is one darn thing after another.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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.

Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

Character supersedes talent. Don’t allow your talent to take you where your character can’t sustain you.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.