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.

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

Less government in business and more business in government.

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

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