If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Reality is what I see, not what you see.

The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.