For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.