Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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 world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

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.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.