A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.