“Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory… In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.”

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.

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.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The whole world is one neighborhood.

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

May your cold nights die a warm death.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.