If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

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 live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.