The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

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.

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

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

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.