The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world.

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.

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

We grow by our dreams.

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.