I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

Less government in business and more business in government.

In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.