You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

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

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

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