No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

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.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.