Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

My best training came from my father.