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

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

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

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.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

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.

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.

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

No public man can be just a little crooked.

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

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.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

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.

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.

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 whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

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.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

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

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.

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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Government is essentially immoral.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Science is organized knowledge.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.