“Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.”

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

I made my money by selling too soon.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with.

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

America has never forgotten – and never will forget – the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path…

We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.

I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation…

Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

And those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.