The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

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...

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

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.