A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

It's not the critic who counts.

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.