Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Everybody is headed for the same place, and they are headed on the same train, and under the same engineer.