Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

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

No greater blessing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. I doubt if there is any problem in the world today -- social, political, or economic -- that would not find happy solution if approached in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

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.