Public administrators would get along better if they would restrain the impulse to butt in or be dragged into trouble. They should... remain silent until an issue is reduced to its lowest terms, until it boils down into something like a moral issue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to h...ire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing somet...hing; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suit...ed to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for the... Atlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Listen, son. You and I are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and let somebody else hit the homeruns....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boots Mulcahey: I'm not gonna make a speech. I just got something to say. Tomorrow our old pal, Doc, here's goin' out. He's bein' ...paid off after 30 years. I know most of you kids gotta long way to go before you find out what 30 years in the Navy means. It means service tough and good. It means serving your country in peace and in war. So let's raise our glasses. Radio announcer: We interrupt this program for an important announcement. This morning.... Boots Mulcahey: Aw, cut that thing off. So let's raise our glasses and drink with all the solemnity this occasion demands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You men have proved that PT boats have some value in this war. Washington wants you back in the States to build them up. Those are... my orders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »