It must be a peace without victory

The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

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

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.