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

If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

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

Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.