“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.”

“You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.”

“I would rather have peace in the world than be President.”

“It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.”

“Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.”

“A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.”

“A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.”

“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.”

“All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”

“A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.”

“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”