Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.