“Well, they’re going to elect that Superman Hoover, and he’s going to have some trouble. He’s going to have to spend money, but it won’t be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don’t know anything about money.[To his Secret Service man, Edmund Starling]”

“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.”

“Civilization and profits go hand in hand”

“It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.”

“Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”

“Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.”

“I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.”