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

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.

All men are equal before fish.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life.

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.