It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.

Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.