politician Quotes
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An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.
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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
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We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great – not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud – but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
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I am really rich. All of my life I have heard a truly successful, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run for public office – just can’t happen. Yet that’s the kind of mindset you need to make this country great again.