When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world.

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

This is a Christian nation.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.