If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.  

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.  

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.  

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.  

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.  

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct, a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.  

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.  

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.  

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.  

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.  

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.  

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.  

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.  

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.    

Do not follow people that stand still.