The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline.

If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians.

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

If you think somebody is telling a big lie about you, the only way to answer is with the whole truth.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

Doing the right thing is easy. [It is] much more difficult [to...] figure out what [the right thing] is.

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