The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

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

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.