The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.