If you want to live like a Republican, you've got to vote for a Democrat.

There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

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.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

A President cannot always be popular.

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.