An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

The right is more precious than peace.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.