Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.