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

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.