I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.