The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

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

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

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

I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the course that will prevent a further effort on the part of the German peoples to continue the struggle for world domination, even though they are thoroughly beaten in this war.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"