Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.