The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.
All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. '...
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the wor...
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
