I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

War is young men dying and old men talking

It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest--at the command--of his head.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

Presidents are selected, not elected.