The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.