We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.