The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

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

What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

True poverty does not come from God.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.