I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.

America has many glories. The last one that she would wish to surrender is the glory of the men who have served her in war. While such devotion lives, the nation is secure. Whatever dangers may threaten from within or without, she can view them calmly. Turning to her veterans, she can say: 'These are our defenders. They are invincible. In them is our safety.'

Eat it up, make it do, wear it out.

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!

We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.