Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

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

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.