When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

All men are equal before fish.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.