The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

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

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.