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.
The government cannot do everything.
You must have it in peace; you must have it in war.
I have come here less to teach than to learn
Each talent--the talent for making money, the talent for showing intellect at the bar, or in any other way--if unaccompanied by character, m...
If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own prosperity.
When the weather is good for crops it is good for weeds.
We have great problems ahead of us as a nation.
Daylight is a powerful discourager of evil.
They will task our intelligence but they will task still more what ranks ahead of intelligence—character.
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 man...