Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

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 world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.