America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.