I do not care how beautiful a theory is, if it won't fit in with the facts it is of no good.

I have come here less to teach than to learn

The government cannot do everything.

You can do a good deal through the town, but you can do more for the town than it can do for you.

You have got to have a superstructure, too.

But education is not enough.

The government is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.

No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man.

You must have it in peace; you must have it in war.

In this country we have got to have decent and intelligent government, not as a substitute for individual initiative but as a supplement to it.

You have got to have the men behind the guns— the men in the engine room.

The government can do something—it can do a good deal—but it never can begin to do as much for the individual as the individual can do for the government.

The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.

They will task our intelligence but they will task still more what ranks ahead of intelligence—character.

Each talent--the talent for making money, the talent for showing intellect at the bar, or in any other way--if unaccompanied by character, makes the possessor a menace to the community.

And the same qualities must be shown in public life if we are to make this country what we will make it—an example to all the nations of mankind.

When the weather is good for crops it is good for weeds.

If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own prosperity.