Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.