We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

We never found a real model (for our vision).

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.