If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.

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

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.