I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

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.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

I'm the only president you've got.