“To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.”

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.

We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. ‘I want it to be the way it was.’ But if you continue the way it was there will be no ‘is.’

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

The greed of drug companies is out of control and the cost is human lives.

The 20th Century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard.

I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll.

What you mean by ‘peace’ is nothing more than the endless repetition of human folly.