No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

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.

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice

I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.