Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit