We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

One with the law is a majority.

July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.