I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.