If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.