When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

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