You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

The real safeguard of democracy is education.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.