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.

Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.

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.

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

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