The United States has a system of taxation by confession

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.