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

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.