To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

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

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.