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

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

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.