A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
The reward of suffering is experience.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Study men, not historians.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.