I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.