If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

America was born a Christian nation.

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.