"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat."

"We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics."

"A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... 'Lord reform Thy world beginning with me.'"

"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

"Above all try something."

"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

"Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection."

"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down."

"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."

"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."

"There are as many opinions as there are experts."

"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."