It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

The object of love is to serve, not to win

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.