The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

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

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

The seed of revolution is repression.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

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.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.