In the early morning hours of this day in 1923, I was sworn in as the 30th President of the United States by my father who was a local justice of the peace. Then I went back to bed.

Happy birthday to the United States. And happy birthday to me.

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.

Remember kids: believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, get eight hours of drugs, and you'll do just fine in life.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No man was ever meanly born. About his cradle is the wondrous miracle of life. He may descend into the depths, he may live in infamy and perish miserably, but he is born great. Men build monuments above the graves of their heroes to mark the end of a great life, but women seek out the birthplace and build their shrine, not where a great life had ( Read more... )

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge; it is always simple and direct.

I may have a flinty voice but I know all the right things to say.