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.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves libert...
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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...
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.
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.
If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
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.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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.
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name...
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.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.