Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

...We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

New Orleans makes it possible to go to Europe without ever leaving the United States.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.