Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providenc….

While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existen….

When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By recog….

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement..

[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. Th….

I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do ….

If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are e….

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit….

What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never….

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights..

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man..

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application..

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal..

It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport..

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced..

You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they w….

The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, ha….

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations..

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succee….

Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the sett….

Not long ago I heard a Navy chaplain refer to the sage advice of the Apostle to put first things first...If we are to heed the admonition to put firs….