The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.