We never found a real model (for our vision).

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.