I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it.
We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.
There is more of a nation’s politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.
I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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.