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.

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.

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

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?