As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.