May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

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

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.