There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.