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.
All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
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...
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 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 world.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
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.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.
The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.