it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here ...