Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.