This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in, has throughout its dilatory length but one meaning in the eyes of history. It freed the country from the social plague which until then had made political development impossible in the United States. More and more, as the years pass, does the meaning stand forth as the sole meaning.

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.