It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.