And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

...to make the world safe for democracy.