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.

I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

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

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.