America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.