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

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.