'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

It will be controlled when the people of America, through their elected representatives, demand the right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear..

The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.