Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.