I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something more than a five to two score. You know as well as I do that the excitement, temperature and decibels of any big game today rise instantly when there is someone on base. It reaches ecstasy when somebody makes a run.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.