Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

Baseball is the greatest of all team sports.

The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.

All men are equal before fish.

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.