We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

I have had a great time as president.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

The White House is a bully pulpit.

In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not.