Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.

They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

It sure is hell to be president.