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 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.

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.