“The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.”

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.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

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

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

The road to love is full of danger signs.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.