Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.