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

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.