“American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.”

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.

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.

Things do not change; we change.

People do change.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.