Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.

I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.