“The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.”

An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.

The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.

Life is but a collection of habits.

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.

A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.

As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.

The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.

Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.

a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.

To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.

I love Oklahoma. The fans have been with me every night. What more can you ask for?

You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that’s why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen.

Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?