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

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

No man can be just who is not free.

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.