I shall tell my doctors baseball has more curative powers than all their medicine.
It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.
When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.
I am sure I’d have made a better all-around man if I hadn’t lost so much time just making a living.
Truth alone can stand the guns of criticism.
We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.
There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.
We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.
I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products.
The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.
We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.
Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing – and they cannot pray all the time!
A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.
I outlived the bastards.