Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Whenever I indulge my sense of humor, it gets me into trouble.

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 have never been hurt by what I have not said.