Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

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.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.