Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.