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.

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.