No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
We grow by our dreams.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.
A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.
When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire – that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man – that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.
It has become a people’s war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.
It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.