Prosperous farmers make for a prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.

I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less on his own, when you really get down to it.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty. The external threat to liberty should not drive us into suppressing liberty at home. Those who want the government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

This is a Christian nation.