Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.
The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
To think that I, the son of the manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.