A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.