There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

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

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.