If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.