But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

I am persuaded that the people of the world have no grievances, one against the other. The hopes and desires of a man who tills the soil are about the same whether he lives on the banks of the Colorado or on the banks of the Danube.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.