Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

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