The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

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

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it.