We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.