If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished.

What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

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

While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life more complete, has to be supplied by the genius of the people themselves. The Government can supply no substitute for enterprise.