The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.