"My choice in 1944 was not my own. I was drafted. It was just as much a draft as if I had been drafted into the Army."

"I'm not a politician by trade. I'm a farmer and a soldier and a politician by necessity."

"I've had more fun in a county courthouse than I have in the White House."

"I have discovered that being a President is like riding a tiger. You have to keep on riding or be swallowed."

"Democracy is a government in which the people are boss. And if they don't like what's going on, they can throw the bums out."