Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.
The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.
We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.
Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant.
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .
As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.
That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.