I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

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.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.