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

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.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

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

...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.