The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

I have tried so hard to do right.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

Some day I will be better remembered.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Honor lies in honest toil.

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

Party honesty is party expediency.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government.

The ship of democracy which has weathered all storms may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.