Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

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.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

I can at once refute the statement that the people of the West object to conservation of oil resources. They know that there is a limit to oil supplies and that the time will come when they and the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now. There are no half measures in conservation of oil.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!