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.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

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 welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.