Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.