What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

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

The other day Aks and I went up to your ranch for a day's fishing. I cannot remember any day when we have had more fun on a stream. We had along with us three newspaper men and a few secret service people, many of whom had never seen a trout stream, so we did the thing up right by borrowing frying pans, bacon and corn meal from the wife of your rancher - and we cooked an outdoor meal for the crowd. It was really quite a day.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.