The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

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.

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

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

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.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.