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.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

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

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.