I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

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

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.