Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'