“But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?”

“I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep ...”

“The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.”

“'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable and for me that always sort of spoils a book.”

“Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.”

“How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?”

“If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.”

“I would rather be right than President.”

“No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.”