The government cannot do everything.
The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.
But education is not enough.
The government is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.
I have come here less to teach than to learn
You have got to have a superstructure, too.
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 ind...
You can do a good deal through the town, but you can do more for the town than it can do for you.
In this country we have got to have decent and intelligent government, not as a substitute for individual initiative but...
No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man.
Daylight is a powerful discourager of evil.
When the weather is good for crops it is good for weeds.
We have great problems ahead of us as a nation.
If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own p...
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 al...
Each talent--the talent for making money, the talent for showing intellect at the bar, or in any other way--if unaccompa...
They will task our intelligence but they will task still more what ranks ahead of intelligence—character.