I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.