It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.

The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern times. It is general or universal language, fitted to benefit the poor stranger, which no other institution is calculated to reach, by extending the beneficent hand.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.