The school is that last expenditure upon which Americans should be willing to economize

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm

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

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales