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

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

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

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

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