In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.