The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.

Failure is not an American habit.

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River