No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.