The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

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.