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

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.