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I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.
[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!
Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.
Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.
I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.
I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.
American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.
The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.
[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."
We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.
Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate.(on the birth of his granddaughter)
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
My boyhood ambition was to be able to earn my own living, without the help of anybody, anywhere.
To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY.
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.