"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

"Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work."

"There ought to be one day - just one - where there is open season on senators."

"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President?'"

"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration."

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love."