The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

If you expect your life to be full of ups and downs, then your mind will be much more peaceful.