While President, I have been President - emphatically.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

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

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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