I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

I'm the only president you've got.

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

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.