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

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.

It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.

Inflation is repudiation.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.