A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.