This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

I have had a great time as president.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.