We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

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

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.