America was born a Christian nation.

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

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.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.