No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
Liberty is its own reward.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
The seed of revolution is repression.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
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.
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.
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.