I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

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

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

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