Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

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.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

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

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.