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

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.