We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

The object of love is to serve, not to win