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.

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.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.