You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

The essence of a republican government is not command. It is consent.

Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.

To escort a cat abroad on a leash is against the nature of a cat, and to permit it to venture forth for exercise unattended into a night of new dangers is against the nature of the owner.

The patriots are those who love America enough to see her as a model to mankind.

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America’s exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling falsehoods about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.