I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

America is the only idealistic nation in the world.