Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

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

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.