No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

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

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

They lived long that have lived well.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.