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.

My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves.

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

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.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

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

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.