If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

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

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.