Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.