I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.