The absence of war is not peace.

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.

I want a one-armed economist, that way he cannot say, 'on the other hand'.

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.