When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

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

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.

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 noblest search is the search for excellence.