I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

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