God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
Calvin Coolidge
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
No one every listened themselves out of a job.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.
Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.
Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to help a powerful corporation better to serve the people, whatever the opposition, do that. Expect to be called a stand-patter, but dont be a stand-patter. Expect to be called a demagogue, but dont be a demagogue. Dont hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Dont hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table. Dont expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Dont hurry to legislate. Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.
If there has been any crime, it must be prosecuted. If there has been any property of the United States illegally transferred or leased, it must be recovered. I propose to employ special counsel of high rank drawn from both political parties to bring such actions for the enforcement of the law. Counsel will be instructed to prosecute these cases in the courts so that if there is any guilt it will be punished; if there is any civil liability it will be enforced; if there is any fraud it will be revealed; and if there are any contracts which are illegal they will be canceled. Every law will be enforced. And every right of the people and the Government will be protected.
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
James Fenimore Cooper
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often-painful process.
Diana Nyad
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Bill Nye
Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way.
Julius Kambarge Nyerere
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