Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

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.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

History is more or less bunk.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

The map is not the territory.

You can’t set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.