Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

A living thing is born.

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.