The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.