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.

I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.