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

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

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.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.