Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you give it to others.
on his 70th birthday: I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
If the world were extremely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.
Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
