I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.