We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

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

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

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

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

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.