The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument - the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say "Heil" to him, nor will they call him "Führer" or "Duce." But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of "O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!"

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.