There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.