[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.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

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.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.