"Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes."

"If studidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

"Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches."

"I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up."

"Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much."

"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."