The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.