...to make the world safe for democracy.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Reality is what I see, not what you see.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.