We must believe the things We teach our children

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.