It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.
There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.
We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord.
My hat is in the ring.
All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights.
Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare.
I always keep my weather eye on the opposition of my seventh house Moon to my first house Mars.
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.
Performance should be made square with promise.
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
I have already lived and enjoyed as much life as any nine other men I have known.
Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.
It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.
Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.
Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.