Movies are like writing history with lightning.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

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

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.