To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.