I knew that this job would be too much for me.

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.

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.

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

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.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.