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" We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants. "

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" The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity. "

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

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

" Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. "

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

" Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. "

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

" 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. "

" Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men. "

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

" 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. "

" No public man can be just a little crooked. "

" 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. "

" There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "

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

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

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

" My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Children are our most valuable natural resource. "