Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.