Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

Reality is what I see, not what you see.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.