The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
