The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.