I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

There is no indispensable man.

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.

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

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.