Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.