Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

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

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.