If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.