If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

We have more machinery of government that is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.