Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

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.

There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

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.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.