The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

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.

Movies are like writing history with lightning.

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.