We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

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