People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.

Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts