We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

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.