Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.