Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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.

We grow by our dreams.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.