The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.