Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. The fantastically crowded nine months of 1945 taught me that a President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt I could let up for a single moment.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

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

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.