What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.