“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.”

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.

You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity

Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy

Not to destroy but to construct

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign… a

Dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil

And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

Freedom is not an ideal

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

Fire is next akin to smoke.

Change shouldn’t scare you, but the thought of staying the same should.

The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.

Men may be born free

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.

Believing in everything at the same time is the same as not believing in anything at all.

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.