Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

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

The world must be made safe for democracy.

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.