The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.