"A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren’t still there, he’s no longer a political leader."

“I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.”

“America has never forgotten — and never will forget — the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path — the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom — the clothing of the grave — that some people believe she is already fitted for.”

“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”

“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.”

“I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.”

“There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.”