Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants. . . If we who serve free men today are to differ from the tyrants of this age, we must balance the powers in our hands with God in our hearts.

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing. For, though in every age there are some who, by bold adventures, or by favorable accidents, rise suddenly to riches, yet it is dangerous to indulge hopes of such rare events; and the bulk of mankind must owe their affluence to small and gradual profits, below which their expense must be resolutely reduced.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.