It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
The nation which forgets it defenders will be itself forgotten.
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
The business of America is business.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.
Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.
It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.
Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.
Civilization and profits go hand in hand
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one whou can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
