 Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. |
| The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. |
| Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. |
| Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business. |
| It takes a great man to be a good listener. |
| I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. |
| Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House. |
| No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war. |
| Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. |
| You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. |
| When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. |
| The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. |
| Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. |
| We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again. |
| Duty is not collective; it is personal. |
| After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. Topics: Business |
| Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. |
| No man ever listened himself out of a job. |
| Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising. |
| Civilization and profit go hand in hand. |
