The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.