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

"The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know."

"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."

"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."

"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself."

"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?"

"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."