A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right |
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face |
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education |
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. |
Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else. |
Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else. |
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. |
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. |
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. |
It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed. |
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention |
Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is. |
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. |
The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear |
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. |