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

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

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

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

" The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way. "

" The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. "

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

" Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. "

" Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful. "

" Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom. "

" America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. "

" 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. "

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

" Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness. "

" 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. "

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

" I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care. "