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" Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution. "

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" 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. "

" 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 great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. "

" The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men. "

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

" 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. "

" A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. "

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

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

" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "

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

" 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. "

" The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. "

" Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. "

" It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. "

" Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community - not from governmental restraints. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. "

" There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president. "

" We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation. "

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

" Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world. "

" The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force. "

" Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. "

" Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. "

" Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. "