You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

I cannot think of anything characteristically American that was not produced by toil. I cannot think of any American man or woman preeminent in the history of our nation who did not reach their place through toil. I cannot think of anything that represents the American people as a whole so adequately as honest work.