 I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. |
| I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. |
| If you want to make enemies, try to change something. |
| So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. |
| America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. |
| When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. |
| Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. |
| I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. |
| Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. |
| Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. |
| It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. |
| My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. |
| There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. |
| The seed of revolution is repression. |
| Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. |
| I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. |
| The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. |
| At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. |
| A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. |
| I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. |
