I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.

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

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

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.