The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.

Since becoming President, I have come to know that the finest of Americans we have abroad today are the missionaries of the cross. I am humiliated that I am not finding this out until this late day the worth of foreign missions and the nobility of the missionaries.