The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

I'm so bored with it all.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations