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" A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity. "

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" Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense. "

" Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family. "

" True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men. "

" The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. "

" When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. "

" The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger. "

" The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage. "

" At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. "

" Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession. "

" The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys' camp fire. "

" While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States - that is, prosperity. "

" New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. "

" Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate. "

Self-Government

" Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil. "

" This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character. "

" Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family. "

" It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. "

" About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. "

" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "

" The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. "

" When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation. "

" I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. "

" It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. "

" In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. "

" Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. "

" Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. "

" One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. "

" Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. "

" The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom. "

" I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours. "