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

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.

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

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