Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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.

Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, or Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members