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

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

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