When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Prosperity is just around the corner.

Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.

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