All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.