Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.