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.
I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
It must be a peace without victory.
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.
Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.
The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens. Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy.
Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.